Dmitry Kann
CEO, Founder at Yktoo
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolDmitry Kann is a seasoned software engineer and serial founder with 21 years of experience building high-performance, production-grade systems across Java, Go, Python and full-stack web technologies. He currently runs Comentario, an open-source, privacy-focused commenting engine in Go/Angular, and operates fast web services like once.to while also contributing to large public projects such as Inno Setup localization. His deep expertise in Identity & Access Management, containerization, SQL/NoSQL and enterprise integrations has driven critical work for Dutch government DSO programs and major banks. Dmitry blends hands-on implementation with architecture and product leadership—favoring a "First Time Right" engineering ethos—and has repeatedly turned ambiguous, security-sensitive requirements into reliable, auditable solutions. Based in Utrecht, he pairs low-level systems experience (Delphi/assembler roots) with modern cloud-native practices, making him comfortable across the full stack and the full lifecycle of software.
21 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Information Systems Electronics Physics, Bachelor Information Systems Electronics Physics at Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU)
Russian, Dutch, English
Stackoverflow
2,846reputation
159kreached
30answers
28questions
dockerfile
top-5%
docker
top-5%
Github Skills (17)
r10
localization10
installer10
rup10
gr10
g10
installers10
docker9
dockerfile9
pygobject6
angular6
ng-bootstrap6
gtk6
angularjs6
spring-mvc6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
jrsoftware/issrc
May 2012 - Jul 2019
Inno Setup is a free installer for Windows programs. First introduced in 1997, Inno Setup today rivals and even surpasses many commercial installers in feature set and stability.
Role in this project:
Localization / Internationalization Specialist
Localization / Internationalization SpecialistContributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 3 comments in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Dmitry primarily focused on updating and maintaining language files for the Inno Setup installer, specifically the Russian and Greek language files. Their contributions involved translating and correcting messages within the language files to ensure accurate and up-to-date localization. The user also merged in updates from the upstream repository and addressed specific translation issues related to button text and other user-facing elements.
windowsinstallersinstallerprogramsstability
yktoo/dklang
Sep 2004 - Apr 2015
DKLang Localization Package
Contributions:152 commits, 1 push, 1 comment in 10 years 8 months
translationinternationalizationgettextlocalizationlocalize
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.